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Sometimes, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s ability to pander amazes and awes even me. One week it’s the environmentalists, the next it’s the firefighters. Everybody needs help, everybody needs some special exemption or set-aside. This week, it’s Vietnam Vets. Specifically, it’s our
Read MoreWhy biz leaders don't change politics
Given all the business talent in America, you would think we could promote some of those pros to the top political positions and let them fix everything. Indeed, in California three are running for those positions now, all claiming that,
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Poizner's crashing TV ad.
If you wonder why Steve Poizner isn’t gaining traction against Meg Whitman, just look at his lame ad of a car crashing, then somehow being revived. It looks a 1987 Buick Le Sabre of the type I used to own.
Read MoreImagining Governor Leary…
Been reading Orange Sunshine: The Brotherhood of Eternal Love and its Quest to Spread, Peace, Love, and Acid to the World by my good friend and former colleague Nick Schou. It’s a colorful, endlessly interesting book about a band of
Read MoreWhy does Whiman want to be guv?
March 24, 2010 In all seriousness, will someone please tell me why Meg Whitman wants to be governor of California? She’s spending money on the race like she just won the lottery, and yet she’s behaving like someone who just
Read MoreWhitman to sing Kumbaya
Maybe the headline is an exaggeration, but Meg Whitman’s proposal to create legislative teams, which she enunciated at a California Taxpayers Association meeting today, is almost as bad of an idea than singing Kumbaya with assembled legislators. According to the
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Does Jerry Brown Break Campaign Law?
Sacramento talk radio host Eric Hogue discovered this very interesting audio and video of Jerry Brown meeting with Labor International Union of America and encouraging them to be the bad guys in the campaign and attack Meg Whitman, so he
Read MoreThe Happiness Factor
With a headline like that, I bet you people can’t wait to read this one. But after reading this New Yorker piece by writer Elizabeth Kolbert on how psychological research into happiness translates into public policy, I couldn’t resist writing
Read MoreCourage, Under Fire
Seriously people — and don’t think we don’t know who you are — you should be following CalWatchdog on Twitter. This is a good thing, and absurdly easy to do. Just go to our Twitter page and click “Follow” or
Read MoreRaise this!
Don’t you just love waking up in the morning, feeling pretty good about yourself, and then opening the paper and realizing suddenly, without any warning whatsoever, that you got into the wrong line of work? Well, that’s what happened to me
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